High school student suspended for bullying after calling out sexual abuse

A high school student in the US has been suspended for bullying after she claimed there was a rapist in among her peers at school.

Aela Mansmann, 15, from Maine US decided to take action after hearing disturbing stories of alleged sexual abuse against her classmates with all of the alleged offenders never facing consequences.

The teen plastered an anonymous sticky note on the bathroom wall at her high school: "There's a rapist in our school and you know who it is."

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The post-it note inspired many similar notes, leading to the school administration quickly launching an investigation into who had put the message there in the first place.

They reviewed CCTV tapes of who entered and exited the bathroom and Mansmann was called in for questioning, going through three weeks of interviews before being reported as a bully by the administration team.

Mansmann and two other students was then suspended for three days, for violating anti-bullying policies.

"In fact, there's more than one person that was being referred to. Yet this person self-identified feeling targeted, so the school took steps to suspend me versus further investigating that self-identification."

"When a student's speech bullies another student, we are required by law and by School Board policy to investigate and take prompt action, even if the same student has also spoken out on a matter of public concern," the statement read.

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"It makes me angry that I'm being punished for bullying and a rapist isn't being punished for raping people," Mansmann told WCSH.

"I felt this was important – that this was common knowledge."

Mansmann's mother has told PEOPLE that she is proud of her daughter.

"In this day and age of social media and all other vehicles, she went old schoolm," Mansmann's mum said."